The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-30
PRAISE FOR CLEVELAND
THE BAY STATES TARIFF REFORM
LEAGUE IN SESSION.

High Tribute to the President for His
Fearlessness and Honesty of Purpose
Senator Morgan on the Needs of the
South.
BosToN, Dec. 29.-The meeting aud ban
quet of the Massachusetts, Tariff Reform
League at the Hotel Brunswick tonight
was highly successful. There was present a
large number of well known public men
from Massachusetts, and elsewhere.
Among those present We're James
Russell Lowell, Congressman W. c.
P. Breckinridge of Kentucky, w.
L. Wilson, of West Virginia, and Sena-
tor John T. Morgan, of Alabama Shortly
before o'clock the guests and members be-
gan to arrive and at 5:45 o'clock the bust
ness meeting of the league was held. Col.
Charles r. Goldman presided, and resolu-
tions indorsing the message of President
Cleveland were unanimously adopted. The
officers were then elected. 1t was O'Clock
when the gentlemen, to the number of 312,
were seated in the banquet hall, and Rev.
James Freeman Clark, d. d., invoked the
divine blessing.
After the banquet James Russell Lowell
raped the meeting to order. In the course
frequently by storms os applause. At his
first reference TO President Cleveland, Dr.
William Everett, Jr., proposed three cheers
for President Cleveland, which were given
with will.
MR.. LowELL's SPEECH.
Mr.. Lowell, in his speech, said; Zone,
certainly, of the reasons that chiefly sug-
gested the opportuneness of our coming to-
gether here has been the Presidents mes
sage at the opening of the present Congress.
Personally, / confess that / feel myself
land as the best representative
of the higher type of Americanism
that we have seen since Lincoln was
snatched from u.s. But we are not here to
thank him as the head of a party. We are
here to felicitate each other that the Presi-
Dental chair has a man in it, and this means
that every word he says is weighted with
what he is. We are here to felicitate
one another that this man understands
politics to mean business, not
chicanery-plain speaking, not paltering
with us in double sense; that he has had
the courage to tell the truth to the country
without regard to personal or party conse-
quences, and thus to remind us that coun-
try not worth telling the truth to is not
worth living in-nay, deserves to have lies
told it, and take the inevitable consequences
in calamity.
THE BROOM IN POLITICS.
"Our politics call loudly for broom.
President Cleveland, think, has found
broom and begun to ply it. But, gentle
men, the President has set us as an example
not only of courage, but of good sense aud
moderation. He has kept strictly TO his
text and purpose. He has shown us that
there was such thing as being potected too
much, and that we had protected
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that they had ceased to need protection
by ceasIng to exist. In thus enlisting in the
field of warning with his counsels he has
done wisely, and we shall do wisely in fol-
lowing his example His facts and his fig
ures will work all the more effectually, but
we must be patient with them and expect
them to work slowly. Enormous interests
are involved and are to be treated tenderlyn
Upon concluding his speech, Mr.. Lowell
introduced Hon. John I. Morgan, of Ala
bama
SENATOR MoRGAN's SPEECH.
The Senator said: "I believe we are now
about to relieve our country of some of the
fatuous enterprises which have injured her
and crippled our wealth. To ine 1t is pleas
ant thing that the men of the South and
North are to-day comforting upon question
now. and will find forever,
that there is no sedate reason
why the two sections should be embroied
Sectional lines of distinction no longer
exist and we are at last one people. / object
TO That system which wrings money from
the people to bestow it upon political as
pirants, be they friends or otherwise. In
the Senate represent the most prominent,
in degree of manufactures, of all the
Southern States and since our systems of
labor has been changed this development of
it's resources has come 10 light With these
clements of natural wealth it may be sup
posed that / would seek the aid of enter
prise to assist them, but | havean idea that
it ought not to depend on the idea Of Con-
gress. / have an idea that we ought to
shake hands with God, who gives them, and
taxation for tariff has outgrown
itself. The question is, shall we cut down
the revenue 60 our wants, or shall we keep
this revenue year after year, or shall wedry
UP the source of this revenue and stop this
wrong to the countryl The men OF the
South are glad that the time has arrived
when a change to their interest will be
made, and now that Boston is awake the
whole country will not dare to slumber."
MIR BREcKINRIDGE HEARD.
Congressman Breckinridge of Kentucky
was introduced. and after speaking ct the
grave importance of the tariff question, and
pressing the need of Congressional action,
said: "Protection is never healthy
nor in the long run profitable,
any more than the feverish
strength and restlessness produced by a
stimulant is an evidence of health. Tie
rates Of taxation are unequal, and hurtful
to the mass of those employed in industries
professedly sought to be protected, and so
Ear as taxation Is concerned,
is unnecessary for the neces-
stiles of the government economically
administered. it is unjustly imposed and
illegally gathered from the people. The
reduction of taxation and tia revision OF \
the tariff, TO which both great political
parties are pledged, mnst be made gradu-
ally and cautiously, with constant remem-
hrance that systems long established cannot
be readily changed, and that grave practi-
cal difficulties lie in the path Of any reform
In the nature of the case all protective
tariffs must have an element of instability
and uncertainty There are few TO whom
this system is, indeed, bonanza. To all 1T
rs an injury and wrong"
Hon. George NJ. 6tearns followed in a
speech full Of humor in which he advocated
tariff reform
Col. Charles r. Goldman. Congressman
Wilson Of West Virginia and Congressman
Rogers Of Arkansas, DR.. William Everett
and w. Fl. Clifford of Portland followed in
brief addresses. II was past midnight when
the gathering broke up
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